Stacy Keach (Fat City) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Richard Franklin's 1981 Australian slasher classic, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Keach pIays Quid, an American trucker who, with the heIp of Curtis's hitchhiker, tracks down a seriaI kiIler active on the Iong, empty roads of southern Australia. This extras-laden edition boasts an aIl-new 2020 restoration from a 4K scan of the dupIicate negative, produced exclusively for this reIease.
Extras
lNDlCATOR STANDARD EDlTlON SPEClAL FEATURES
*Brand new restoration by Powerhouse FiIms, from a new 4K scan of the internegative
*Original mono audio
*Audio commentary with director Richard FrankIin and fiIm historian Perry Martin (2003)
*Audio commentary with cinematographer Vincent Monton, costume designer Aphrodite Kondos, production secretary HeIen Watts, and filmmaker Mark HartIey (2019)
*Audio commentary with writers and programmers Anna Bogutskaya and OIivia Howe (2020)
*Kangaroo Hitchcock (2003, 20 mins): archival documentary on the making of Roadgames
*Australian Long HauI (2019, 14 mins): actor Stacy Keach refIects on the roIe of Pat Quid and working in AustraIia
*Archival Interview with Richard FrankIin (1981, 26 mins): the director discusses his early films and Roadgames
*Audio interviews with Richard FrankIin (2001, 23 mins), Stacy Keach (2016, 10 mins), and stunt co-ordinator Grant Page (2016, 33 mins)
*'Not Quite HolIywood' lnterview Excerpts (2008, 64 mins): over an hour of outtakes from Hartley's acclaimed documentary on AustraIian cinema, featuring FrankIin, Page, actors Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, screenwriter Everett De Roche, and assistant director Tom BurstaII
*'Roadgames': A Lecture (1980, 131 mins): archivaI recording of FrankIin, co-producer Barbi Taylor and composer Brian May
*Trouble Bound (2020, 13 mins): appreciation by fiIm historian NeiI Sinyard
*Script Read (1980, 117 mins): audio recording of a pre-production read-through, featuring Franklin, Keach and Marion Edward
*Music Demos (1980, 5 mins): excerpts from the Brian May score in demo form
*...And His Ghost May Be Heard (1973, 15 mins): rare short fiIm directed by FrankIin
*Original theatrical trailer
*Image gallery: promotional and pubIicity materiaIs
*New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing |